Brain Rays’ Benjamin Hudson offers us an exclusive mix in preparation for his forthcoming album Slime coming in April 2024 with Acroplane Recordings.
Features
Synthetic Ecology 3 :: About Music and Popular Success
Writing music for netlabels has been a main focus for my projects. My own netlabel, Treetrunk Records, focuses on music composed using alternative techniques. I have also extensively released on netlabels such as Webbed Hand, Petroglyph Music, Camembert Electrique, and others. As my goals became more proportional, I let go of my desire to make music mainly for profit.
WE FORFEIT :: Radio Relativa #38 — Mora B2B Leonid
If we love anything here at WE FORFEIT, it’s the blind following of ritual and tradition. With this in mind, the lads roped in their good mates Mora and Leonid for the yearly pilgrimage to the Radio Relativa studio to get some recording done.
Music Mondays 012 :: Music for Sleep
With a brief look at some notables along the road, Chang Terhune’s Music Mondays aims to shed light on both new and old(er) music over a wide spectrum of sound (and vision). This week, Music for Sleep — Super Deep Brown Noise, New Age Cassette Tapes, Scanner, Dune, Brian Eno, David Lynch, Aphex Twin, Marconi Union, Blade Runner, Star Trek, Singing Ice, and Open Ocean.
Synthetic Ecology 2 :: Finding the edge, some thoughts about ‘experimental music’
Experimental music can mean many things—often tracks are beat-less or off-beat, atonal or noisy, or in some way either more or less dense than other genres. My point is not to establish orthodox genre boundaries.
Music Mondays 011 :: David Sylvian, Gone To Earth
With a brief look at some notables along the road, Chang Terhune’s Music Mondays aims to shed light on both new and old(er) music over a wide spectrum of sound (and vision). This week, David Sylvian.
Sontag Shogun :: “The Tightrope Session” — Video premiere
Sontag Shogun shares “The Tightrope Session” — a live performance recorded in an industrial lighting design warehouse in Brooklyn.
Time Released Sound :: A Decade Of Handmade Music Packaging
It’s the big beautiful Time Released Sound art book! Designed by curator, Colin Herrick, and sidekick, Maria, to perch cutely on your coffee table, commemorating a decade of obsessive crafting of a host of handmade housing of its music releases collected into book form.
WE FORFEIT :: Radio Relativa #37
With a fresh batch of records having just arrived at HQ, the vinyl is squeaking new and comes in some wonderful shapes, sizes and sounds.